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Posted by BillW50 on June 21, 2008, 9:09 am
Please log in for more thread options Daniel James typed on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:06:38 +0100:
> BillW50 wrote:
>> Vista ... is a big deal for laptop users ...
>
> Laptop users would be well advised to choose an OS with lower hardware
> requirements and so lower power consumption.
Where are you going to find drivers for the new hardware that you buy?
Easier said than done. Virtually anything you buy nowadays will have
Vista drivers and nothing else.
>> (even Mac users as they can run Windows too nowadays)
>
> A Mac running Windows isn't really a Mac, it's a Windows box that
> happens to use Apple hardware.
>
>> ... Vista requires beefier hardware than Windows XP or Mac OS does.
>
> So, as I said, it's not a good choice for a laptop.
Few new laptops have anything but Vista drivers and that is all.
>> ... an informed buyer will likely have no regrets.
>
> An informed buyer will not buy Vista if he can possibly avoid it.
>
>> Although you appear to wish people are not informed and continue
>> living under a rock, don't you? Why is that?
>
> I didn't say that Vista's shortcomings didn't need to be discussed. I
> merely pondered why *this* discussion -- which does not seem to be
> specifically about Vista on laptops -- was happening in groups
> specific to laptops.
Haven't you been listening? Besides getting a glorified PDA called a
Asus EEE PC, where are you going to find a new laptop without Vista?
Pickings are few.
>> Do you have any financial interest in Vista?
>
> What do you think? Vista can vanish tomorrow as far as I'm concerned
> and good riddance to bad rubbish!
Well nice to agree somewhere. ;-)
--
Bill
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